The difference between Flop and Hit

When used as nouns, flop means an incident of a certain type of fall, whereas hit means a blow.

When used as verbs, flop means to fall heavily due to lack of energy, whereas hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

Flop is also adverb with the meaning: right, squarely, flat-out.

Hit is also pronoun with the meaning: ..

Hit is also adjective with the meaning: very successful.

check bellow for the other definitions of Flop and Hit

  1. Flop as a verb (intransitive):

    To fall heavily due to lack of energy.

    Examples:

    "He flopped down in front of the television, exhausted from work."

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  2. Flop as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to drop heavily.

    Examples:

    "The tired mule flopped its ears forward and trudged on."

  3. Flop as a verb (intransitive, informal):

    To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).

    Examples:

    "The latest album flopped and so the studio canceled her contract."

  4. Flop as a verb (sports, intransitive):

    To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)

    Examples:

    "It starts with Chris Paul, because Blake didn't really used to flop like that, you know, last year."

    "While Stern chastised Vogel for on Thursday calling the Heat "the biggest flopping team in the NBA," he did intimate that he sees merit in the sentiment."

  5. Flop as a verb (intransitive):

    To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.

    Examples:

    "The brim of a hat flops."

  6. Flop as a verb (poker, transitive):

    To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.

    Examples:

    "Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ)."

  7. Flop as a verb (intransitive, slang):

    To stay, sleep or live in a place.

  1. Flop as a noun:

    An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.

  2. Flop as a noun:

    A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.

  3. Flop as a noun (poker):

    The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

  4. Flop as a noun:

    A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.

  1. Flop as an adverb:

    Right, squarely, flat-out.

  2. Flop as an adverb:

    With a flopping sound.

  1. Flop as a noun (computing):

    One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.

  2. Flop as a noun (computing):

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  1. Hit as a verb (physical):

    To strike. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly. To strike against something. To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party. To attack, especially amphibiously.

    Examples:

    "One boy hit the other."

    "The ball hit the fence."

    "'Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river."

    "If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island."

  2. Hit as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To briefly visit.

    Examples:

    "We hit the grocery store on the way to the park."

  3. Hit as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

    Examples:

    "You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend nowrap too late.  nowrap We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies."

  4. Hit as a verb:

    To attain, to achieve. To reach or achieve. To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck. To guess; to light upon or discover.

    Examples:

    "I hit the jackpot.  The movie hits theaters nowrap in December.  nowrap The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.  nowrap We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night."

  5. Hit as a verb (transitive):

    To affect negatively.

    Examples:

    "The economy was hit by a recession.  nowrap The hurricane hit his fishing business hard."

  6. Hit as a verb (games):

    To make a play. In blackjack, to deal a card to. To come up to bat. To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

    Examples:

    "'Hit me."

    "Jones hit for the pitcher."

  7. Hit as a verb (transitive, computing, programming):

    To use; to connect to.

    Examples:

    "The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3."

  8. Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):

    To have sex with.

    Examples:

    "I'd hit that."

  9. Hit as a verb (transitive, US, slang):

    To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

  1. Hit as a noun:

    A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

    Examples:

    "The hit was very slight."

  2. Hit as a noun:

    Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

  3. Hit as a noun:

    An attack on a location, person or people. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

  4. Hit as a noun (computing, Internet):

    The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine

  5. Hit as a noun (Internet):

    A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

    Examples:

    "My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a [[search engine]]."

  6. Hit as a noun:

    An approximately correct answer in a test set.

  7. Hit as a noun (baseball):

    The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder's choice.

    Examples:

    "The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth."

  8. Hit as a noun (colloquial):

    A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Examples:

    "Where am I going to get my next hit?"

  9. Hit as a noun:

    A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

  10. Hit as a noun (dated):

    A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    Examples:

    "a happy hit"

  11. Hit as a noun (backgammon):

    A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

  12. Hit as a noun (backgammon):

    A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

  1. Hit as an adjective:

    Very successful.

    Examples:

    "The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans."

  1. Hit as a pronoun (dialectal):

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